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SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

Okay, I’ll bite. But considering Signal has no data and very little metadata to give people, what exactly is the problem? What evidence would they have to arrest people on?

Especially now that people don’t have to share phone numbers to add a contact and can stop other from being able to do so.

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uis@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

What evidence would they have to arrest people on?

Message in big group chat and phone number. Message can for example say that war is bad, and as result you will be charhed with “discreditation of army”.

Especially now that people don’t have to share phone numbers to add a contact

Phone number that can only be obtained after showing passport.

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- SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  That’s fair, one reason I stay out of big groups, though you can set it not to be displayed to anyone, so I’m not fully grasping your argument.
  
  What do you mean by passport? It will a bit, if someone doesn’t know the phone number of an account that sent a message.
  
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  - uis@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    
    though you can set it not to be displayed to anyone,
    
    Is it something new? I don’t remember it being a thing.
    
    What do you mean by passport?
    
    In certain countries(Russia) you need passport to buy SIM card.
    
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    SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Fairly new, yeah.
    
    Oh, right, yeah, that’s bad.
    
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